mongodb-schema-design

mongodb-schema-design is a skill for Claude Code from fcakyon/claude-codex-settings. It costs 127 tokens per session (2,823 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for designing MongoDB data models, including how to structure documents and relationships between records.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or reviewing schemas, deciding when to embed data or reference it, migrating from SQL databases, and modeling one-to-many or hierarchical data.
Why use it?
It helps prevent slow queries, oversized documents, awkward relationships, and other problems caused by a poor database structure.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mongodb-skills plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for creating or reviewing schemas, deciding when to embed data or reference it, migrating from SQL databases, and modeling one-to-many or hierarchical data.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings/mongodb-schema-design
About the project

claude-codex-settings is a collection of configurations and reusable extensions for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, and related coding tools. Developers use its skills, commands, hooks, agents, plugins, and MCP servers to shape coding-agent workflows and connect alternative model APIs. The catalogue entries are components of this collection that can be installed into supported coding tools.

fcakyon/claude-codex-settings · 1,183 stars · on GitHub · claudesettings.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add fcakyon/claude-codex-settings --skill mongodb-schema-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mongodb-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,823 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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  • medium Excessive Agency · line 143
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    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00127 $0.02823
Opus 5.5 $0.00051 $0.01129
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00282

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2a19fcd1a85b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mongodb-schema-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/mongodb-skills/skills/mongodb-schema-design/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MongoDB Schema Design

Data modeling patterns and anti-patterns for MongoDB, maintained by MongoDB. Bad schema is the root cause of most MongoDB performance and cost issues—queries and indexes cannot fix a fundamentally wrong model.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

  • Designing a new MongoDB schema from scratch
  • Migrating from SQL/relational databases to MongoDB
  • Reviewing existing data models for performance issues
  • Troubleshooting slow queries or growing document sizes
  • Deciding between embedding and referencing
  • Modeling relationships (one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many)
  • Implementing tree/hierarchical structures
  • Seeing Atlas Schema Suggestions or Performance Advisor warnings
  • Hitting the 16MB document limit
  • Adding schema validation to existing collections

Quick Reference

1. Schema Anti-Patterns - 3 rules

  • antipattern-unnecessary-collections - Splitting homogeneous data into multiple collections is often an anti-pattern; consult this reference to validate whether this is the case.
  • antipattern-excessive-lookups - When encountering overly normalized collections that reference each other or frequent and possibly slow $lookup operations, consult this reference to validate whether this is problematic and how to fix it.
  • antipattern-unnecessary-indexes - Consult this reference when indexes overlap or are not used by queries, to identify and remove unnecessary indexes that add overhead without benefit.

2. Schema Fundamentals - 4 rules

  • fundamental-embed-vs-reference - Consult this reference for approaches to modeling different types of relationships (1:1, 1:few, 1:many, many:many, tree/hierarchical data) and how to decide between embedding and referencing based on access patterns.
  • fundamental-document-model - Fundamentals of the document model. Consult this reference when migrating from SQL or other normalized data to a document database like MongoDB.
  • fundamental-schema-validation - Consult this reference when creating new collections, or adding validation to existing collections, for example in response to finding inconsistent document structures or data quality issues.
  • fundamental-document-size - Consult this reference when documents hit the hard 16MB limit, or when accesses are slower than expected as a result of large documents.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 182 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 2a19fcd1a85b

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mongodb-schema-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository fcakyon/claude-codex-settings (1,183 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,823 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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